One of my friends posted on his facebook a while back the status of "...believe Fleet Foxes has to be the biggest joke on the planet." I whole heartedly agree. Not only are the easily the most overrated band to come out in recent years, but they also suck. LIKE REALLY BAD. Not at their instruments, they just sound really really gay, to put it bluntly. They suck. HARD.

So a while back when Emma and I still worked together, she put on her ipod while we were working as she often did in the morning while we waited for the store to open and did our weekly work stuff. I guess I had a rough night the night before, because for some reason the music connected really well and I thouroughly enjoyed the album. I asked who it was and to my surprise, it was Band of Horses, a band I had heard but never paid much attention to because of their comparison to uber-shitty Fleet Foxes.

These guys don't deserve to be compared to that joke. They are 69569579597957957 times better. What Fleet Foxes lacks in simplicity and heart, Band of Horses makes up for times a thousand. You can say they are the same thing, but Band of Horses sounds like a more honest, more stripped down, and less pretentious band that simply wants to make music about how they feel. Harmonizing and vocals are great, which they are in this band, but it doesn't detract from the overall message and emotion, the way Fleet Foxes does. I feel like Fleet Foxes tries to hard to be an indie Beach Boys and their persistent vocalization/sucking of their own dicks just makes me want to break their instruments every time I hear them play. I don't know. I just hate their voices. But for some reason I like the way these guys sound. It sounds more honest, more vulnerable and less contrived.

Anyways, without getting to personal these past three months I've made a series of decisions that I completely regret. Every single one of them almost has been a mistake and if I had a time machine I would go back and change them. Hindsight is 20/20 and my beer goggles have defintely worn off. I regret a lot of things. This song by Band of Horses really strikes a chord with me especially in relation to one of those mistakes that I wish I hadn't of made. Say what you will, it's a great song and it just makes me realize how lucky I really was and how lucky I wish I still was. You never know. It can happen. Right? Okay, yeah you're right.



I don't care what you say this is five billion times better than any piece o' crap the Foxes put out. Maybe just because of its personal meaning but still: Fleet Foxes = The Death of Earnesty in music.